On November 6, SZSE and Anhui Branch of China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) jointly held the Commendation Conference for Excellent Investor Education Works on the Reform of the ChiNext Board & Investor Education Training for Members, to further urge and guide members to fulfill their duties, form synergy in investor education, and strengthen the investor foundation for consolidating reform achievements and guaranteeing high-quality operation of the registration-based IPO system of the ChiNext Board. More than 130 people including leaderships and investor education workers from more than 80 member units participated in the event.

The major reform of the ChiNext Board and the pilot project of the registration-based IPO system have synchronized changes of the existing capital market and the incremental business for the first time, reforming a series of basic regulations for issuance, listings, information disclosure, transactions and delistings. Investor education-helping them fully understand the significance of reform and relevant regulations and rules and embrace value investment, rational investment and long-term investment-is a key to ensuring that reform starts stably, progresses orderly and yields results. Besides, investor education is also important to enhance investors’ sense of gain from the reform and encourage investors to actively support and participate in the reform. Sticking to the principle of “developing synergy to implement reform”, SZSE has given full play to the role of members as the main force in investor education, and guided members to realize smooth transition of ChiNext Board investor suitability management through various measures such as strengthening organizational arrangements, refining regulations and rules, optimizing technical systems, implementing special incentives and providing quality services. Major institutional arrangements have stood the preliminary test of the market. Market operation is stable on the whole. The concept of the registration-based IPO system is well embraced, and investor education work has delivered concrete results.

At the conference, SZSE summed up member units’ investor education work on the reform of the ChiNext Board. To further improve the quality of listed companies, explore and form a registration-based IPO system framework that is in line with the domestic conditions and establish a regular delisting mechanism, SZSE required member units to continue to uphold the “people-centered” service philosophy, strengthen risk warning and education work and effectively fulfill investor education duties centering on the central tasks of deepening reform in all respects. SZSE commended 40 excellent investor education works on the reform of the ChiNext Board from member units. The investor education works from Bohai Securities, Founder Securities, Guorong Securities, Haitong Securities, Shanxi Securities, Xiangcai Securities, China Galaxy Securities and China Securities won the First Place. In the communication and interaction section, members discussed measures to help include investor education in the national education system, as well as difficulties faced in actual work and solutions.

After the conference, SZSE organized over 60 members to visit Anhui Liu’an Muchang Hope Elementary School, where SZSE held a lively lecture on financial quotient education to help teachers and students establish a correct view of wealth and finance, and donated a batch of school supplies and books. This is the first time that SZSE has combined investor education with poverty alleviation, an exploration of new model of “investor education + poverty alleviation”. Besides, SZSE organized a trip to Dabie Mountain Revolution History Memorial Hall, to promote business through Party building, integrate the Dabie Mountain spirit in investor education work and further enhance the synergy of the whole market in investor education work.

Investor education is a persistent basic work with a silent transforming effect. Next, SZSE will study and implement in depth the guiding principles of the Fifth Session of the 19^th CPC Central Committee, follow CSRC’s working requirements of standing in awe of the market, rule of law, professionalism and risks and pooling the efforts of all sides, resolutely take on the responsibility as a trailblazer in the capital market, and continuously consolidate the achievements of the reform of the ChiNext Board. SZSE will gather forces of all market participants, leverage members’ advantages in investor education, and make investor education a required link in advancing key reform tasks, and strengthen investor protection as the premise for refining basic systems and leveraging market functions. Besides, SZSE will also develop innovative investor education forms and enrich investor education content to enhance the investor foundation for accelerating the building of a quality innovation capital center and world-class exchange and better serve national strategies and economic and social development.